Panel discussion and podcast: Architecture's Scope Extends Beyond the Enterprise
Increasingly, more and more IT functions, assets and resources are being provisioned and consumed beyond the enterprise and outside the purview of IT department. This panel discussion, which will be recorded as a live BriefingsDirect podcast, will examine the role of Enterprise Architects within this climate and their influence on how IT services are used, managed and integrated with traditional IT. The panelists will also discuss and dissect how EA frameworks interleave with SOA, cloud trends, and hybrid models to aid in this progression.

Moderator:-

Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and ZDNet Blogger
Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 16 years. Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: Web services, application development tools, and application lifecycle optimization techniques. His specific interests include enterprise infrastructure and processes, developer tool advances and trends, embedded software advances, infrastructure outsourcing and utility usage trends, SOA infrastructure and integration developments, and open source development and deployment initiatives.
 
Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld. He is a founding member and a weekly contributor to the Gillmor Gang podcast.

Panelists:-

Dr. John Gotze currently serves as President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (a|EA). He is a lecturer at Copenhagen Business School and at the Danish IT University. He is co-founder of the Danish think-tank EA Fellows, and runs Carnegie Mellon University's EA-certification programme in Europe. His new book, Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance, co-edited with Gary Doucet, Scott Bernard and Pallab Saha, is out this summer. Previously, he served as enterprise architect at the National IT and Telecom Agency in Copenhagen, and participated in developing the Danish national policy for a government-wide enterprise architecture. Earlier, he worked for the Swedish Agency for Administrative Development as head of section with BPR and IT-strategy as responsibilities. He holds a PhD in Participatory Urban Design and a M.Sc. in Engineering, both from the Technical University of Denmark.
 
Tim Westbrock is a leading authority on enterprise architecture (EA), enterprise portfolio management, governance, and organizational issues related to enterprise level planning. He has worked with 300+ companies in various industries and the public sector to mentor them in their approach to enterprise architecture, including Procter & Gamble, Province of Ontario, State of Ohio, American Express, Sprint, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida, Eli Lilly, La-Z-Boy, McGraw Hill, and Nationwide Insurance. He has advanced the state of the art of EA processes and was the driving force behind META Group’s EA research agenda and METAmethod – a best-practice transformation method for EA development. As a dynamic speaker, Mr. Westbrock is a frequent lecturer and educator at industry events and workshops. He has over 18 years experience in the IT industry as an analyst, consultant and architect. Before joining META Group, he was the chief architect for Anthem, Inc., responsible for driving its enterprise architecture strategy. He began his career with Andersen Consulting, specializing in methodology, project management, and assisting clients with legacy-to-client/server migrations. He has a B.S. in Applied Science for Systems Analysis from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and lives with his wife and children in Cincinnati.

Sandy Kemsley is an independent analyst and systems architect, specializing in business process management, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise architecture and business intelligence. In addition to her technical background, she has worked on the business operations end of projects, and is often involved from business requirements and analysis through technology design and deployment.

During her career of more than 20 years, she’s started and run successful product and service companies, including a desktop workflow and document management product company from 1988-90, and a 40-person services firm specializing in BPM and e-commerce from 1990-2000. During 2000-2001, she worked for FileNet (now IBM) as Director of eBusiness Evangelism during the launch of their eProcess BPM product, and she was a featured speaker on BPM and its impact on business at conferences and customer sites in 14 countries during that time.

Since 2001, she’s returned to private consulting practice as a BPM architect, performing engagements for financial services and insurance organizations across North America, and as an analyst working with BPM vendors. She also creates and delivers BPM and related training courses.